Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection
Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills
1:30 pm
Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source
That would be programme C. Before I revert to the Minister, Senator Power raised the issue of patronage. It is one we have looked at in this committee indirectly when considering the admissions to schools legislation. I concur with what Senator Power says. The diversity of patronage approach - certainly in my community - is leading to segregation of pupils along many different lines, including racial. We are dividing people and sending them to different schools rather than educating them in the local community school. We need to examine this. There are many issues for the Minister to deal with.
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